Anyone had a windscreen polished successfully ?
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I have a few very light scratches on windscreen I would like to get repaired. They are not big enough to get fingernail into, look to have been caused by careless ice scraping.
I am quite an experienced hand polisher ( ohh err ) but I think I will take the professional route on this one as the potential to frak up seems high.
Any one had it done and can reccomend some professionals ? Or has anyone done it DIY and had good results ? I have seen some people advise using 0000 steel wool....
I am quite an experienced hand polisher ( ohh err ) but I think I will take the professional route on this one as the potential to frak up seems high.
Any one had it done and can reccomend some professionals ? Or has anyone done it DIY and had good results ? I have seen some people advise using 0000 steel wool....
It's all very well saying put a stonechip in, but quite apart from the moral issue, I have had a few cars with replacement windscreens and the quality has been variable... issues like them scratching the paint and causing pillars to rust...bad glue jobs with bubbles present... trim pieces snapped and then glued back in. I would rather have an original screen repaired.
ExPat2B said:
It's all very well saying put a stonechip in, but quite apart from the moral issue, I have had a few cars with replacement windscreens and the quality has been variable... issues like them scratching the paint and causing pillars to rust...bad glue jobs with bubbles present... trim pieces snapped and then glued back in. I would rather have an original screen repaired.
^ this ^I would try
Kelly at KDS (Gillingham)
http://www.kdskeltec.co.uk/find-us
David at Glass Doctors (home counties)
http://glassdoctors.co.uk/windscreen-repair/contac...
Duncan at Autobody Windscreens (Leeds areas)
http://windscreen-replacement-leeds.co.uk/contact-...
Pete at 1st Choice Autoglaze (Liverpool areas)
http://www.1stchoiceautoglaze.co.uk/contact.html
Some years ago, I used a DIY kit to polish out a wiper scratch across the screen.
Although it removed the scratch fairly well, it left the glass less than optically perfect - like looking through a bad pair of glasses with a ripple in them. This drew my eye to the imperfection every time I drove the bloody car and was a major distraction. I was glad to sell the car shortly afterwards.
Although it removed the scratch fairly well, it left the glass less than optically perfect - like looking through a bad pair of glasses with a ripple in them. This drew my eye to the imperfection every time I drove the bloody car and was a major distraction. I was glad to sell the car shortly afterwards.
littleredrooster said:
Some years ago, I used a DIY kit to polish out a wiper scratch across the screen.
Although it removed the scratch fairly well, it left the glass less than optically perfect - like looking through a bad pair of glasses with a ripple in them. This drew my eye to the imperfection every time I drove the bloody car and was a major distraction. I was glad to sell the car shortly afterwards.
Who'd you sell it to, Marty Feldman?Although it removed the scratch fairly well, it left the glass less than optically perfect - like looking through a bad pair of glasses with a ripple in them. This drew my eye to the imperfection every time I drove the bloody car and was a major distraction. I was glad to sell the car shortly afterwards.
Glassman said:
littleredrooster said:
Some years ago, I used a DIY kit to polish out a wiper scratch across the screen.
Although it removed the scratch fairly well, it left the glass less than optically perfect - like looking through a bad pair of glasses with a ripple in them. This drew my eye to the imperfection every time I drove the bloody car and was a major distraction. I was glad to sell the car shortly afterwards.
Who'd you sell it to, Marty Feldman?Although it removed the scratch fairly well, it left the glass less than optically perfect - like looking through a bad pair of glasses with a ripple in them. This drew my eye to the imperfection every time I drove the bloody car and was a major distraction. I was glad to sell the car shortly afterwards.
It was like one of Jasper Carrot's 'prescription windscreens.'
Thanks Glassman, I have PM'ed you with a request for some names a bit closer to home.
The scratches are vertical near the drivers pillar, just inside the swept area of the windscreen wiper, so not an area I would look through all the time, so I dont think it needs to be optically perfect.
The scratches are vertical near the drivers pillar, just inside the swept area of the windscreen wiper, so not an area I would look through all the time, so I dont think it needs to be optically perfect.
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